Sat Chit Ananda
Truth Consciousness Bliss
This trinity represents the highest form of awareness, a state that transcends the duality of life.
Everybody wants to be something. You will find when you are satisfied with the way things are, just the way things are, right now, at any given moment, that's it. Just the way things are. Not when things are like this or things are like that.
Just the way things are. It makes no difference where you are, what's going on in your life, with whom you are living at this time, what's going on in this world. When you're allowed to be just the way you are, when you allow everything to be just the way it is, then you are yourself, for you're living in that split second of eternity.
It's like an atom exploding. You are that center that goes nowhere, yet is everywhere. And you're always living in that center, in that second. There is no time or space. There's only that second, the instant of a second. You have to find this out for yourself. You have to find this out for yourself.
Don't look at me. For all you know I may have escaped from the funny farm. (laughter) Find out for yourself. And you do this by keeping still!
#RobertAdams
Transcript 115 The Body and the World
December 12th, 1991
The real delusion is the feeling
that you are the body.
When you get rid of that delusion, what remains is your Self.
#SriRamanaMaharshi
The mind is made useful by its reflected light.
It is used for seeing objects.
When turned inwards, it merges into the source of illumination which shines by Itself and the mind is then like the moon in daytime.
#SriRamanaMaharshi
The Whole Vedanta is contained in the Two Biblical statements
'I AM THAT I AM' and
BE STILL AND KNOW THAT I AM GOD.!'
#SriRamanaMaharshi
Stillness or peace is realization.
There is no moment when the Self is not.
So long as there is doubt or the feeling of non-realization, the attempt should be made to rid oneself of these thoughts.
#SriRamanaMaharshi
Love itself is the actual form of God.
'I do not love this; I do not love that', you reject all things, that which remains is Swarupa, i.e., the innate Self.
That is pure bliss.
#SriRamanaMaharshi
That which is born must die; that which is acquired must be lost.
Were you born?
You are ever existent.
The Self can never be lost.
#SriRamanaMaharshi
There is
neither
creation
nor
destruction, neither destiny nor free will, neither path nor
achievement.
This is the final truth.
#SriRamanaMaharshi
Reality must be always real.
It is not with forms and names. That which underlies these is the reality.
It underlies limitations, being itself limitless. It is not bound.
It underlies unrealities,
itself being real. Reality is that which is. It is as it is.
It transcends speech. It is beyond the expressions 'existence, non-existence', etc.
Be As You Are: The Teachings of #SriRamanaMaharshi
Longing for a tiny grain of pleasure, people toil so hard using the mind to plough the field of the five senses, but they never wish for the flood of Bliss which is the fruit that comes by ploughing the Heart, the Source of the mind, with [simple] Self-attention.
Ah, what a wonder!
#SriRamanaMaharshi - verse 72 from Guru Vachaka Kovai.
"It is very important to understand that it is The Teaching that matters - not the person, or the Guru.
You get a letter that makes you laugh or cry. It is not the postman who does it.
The Guru only tells you the good news about your Real Self, and shows you the way back to IT. In a way, the Guru is ITs
'messenger'.
There will be many messengers, but the message is one: 'Be What You ARE !'
#SriNisargadattaMaharaj
Do not worry.
It is a waste of intellect and energy!
Spontaneously, Everything is happening in God, through God, and by God..!
#SriNisargadattaMaharaj
Unselfish work leads to silence, for when you work selflessly, you don't need to ask for help.
Indifferent to results, you are willing to work with the most inadequate means. You do not care to be much gifted and well equipped. Nor do you ask for recognition and assistance.
You just do what needs be done, leaving success and failure to the unknown. For everything is caused by innumerable factors, of which your personal endeavour is but one.
Yet such is the magic of man's mind and heart that the most improbable happens when human will and love pull together.
#SriNisargadattaMaharaj
Questioner: When your body dies, you remain.
Maharaj: Nothing dies. The body is just imagined. There is no such thing.
Questioner: Before another century will pass, you will be dead to all around you. Your body will be covered with flowers, then burnt and the ashes scattered. That will be our experience. What will be yours?
Maharaj: Time will come to an end. This is called the Great Death (mahamrityu), the death of time.
Questioner: Does it mean that the universe and its contents will come to an end?
Maharaj: The universe is your personal experience. How can it be affected?
You might have been delivering a lecture for two hours; where has it gone when it is over?
It has merged into silence in which the beginning, middle and end of the lecture are all together.
Time has come to a stop, it was, but is no more. The silence after a life of talking and the silence after a life of silence is the same silence.
Immortality is freedom from the feeling:
Yet it is not extinction.
On the contrary,
it is a state infinitely more real, aware and happy than you can possibly think of.
Only self-consciousness is no more.
- Talks with #SriNisargadattaMaharaj
If you know you are not the mind, then what difference does it make if it's busy or quiet? You are not the mind.
#SriNisargadattaMaharaj
To remain without thought in the waking state is the greatest worship.
#SriNisargadattaMaharaj
Take the idea
'I was born'.
You may take it to be true.
Itis not.
You were Never born, nor will you ever die.!
It is the idea that was born and shall die, not you.!
By identifying yourself with it you became mortal.
Just like in a cinema all is light, so does Consciousness become the vast world.
Look closely, and you will see that all names and forms are but transitory waves on the ocean of Consciousness,
that only Consciousness can be said to be, not its transformations.
#SriNisargadattaMaharaj
MEDITATION
Try to be, only to be.
The all-important word is "try."
Allot enough time daily for sitting quietly and trying,
just trying to go beyond the personality with its addictions and obsessions.
Don't ask how, it cannot be explained.
You just keep on trying until you succeed.
It you persevere there can be no failure.
What matters supremely is sincerity, earnestness. You must really have had surfeit of being the person you are, now see the urgent need of being free of this unnecessary self-identification with a bundle of memories and habits.
Steady resistance against the unnecessary is the secret of success.
After all, you are what you are every moment of your life, but you are never conscious of it, except, maybe at the point of awakening from sleep.
#SriNisargadattaMaharaj